Pia Lopez, Sacramento Bee editorial writer, declared on Wednesday that: "It is time to reinstate the 1994 ban – without the NRA loophole. Simply ban the possession, manufacture, use or importation of weapons and ammunition clips that can hold more than 10 rounds."

I trust Ms. Lopez will have the courage of her convictions and accompany the ATF raid parties directed to the doors of previously law-abiding firearm owners to enforce that unconstitutional diktat. If Ms. Lopez and her fellow citizen disarmament advocates want our military-pattern semi-automatic firearms and magazines and have the juice to pass a law to that effect, they should by all means come and get them. Come and get 'em and watch what happens.

No doubt Ms. Lopez would willingly comply if the federal government ordered her to turn in her laptop on pain of death. No doubt, too, that California's gelded firearm owners are already putting up with a slightly lighter form of such tyranny -- at least those who haven't voted their principles with their feet and left. But to extrapolate from her own cowardice over principle -- or from that of California's firearm owners hostage to your state's collectivist politics -- to the nation as whole would be making a big mistake. For she would have to kill millions of us "bitter clingers" from Montana to Michigan to Alabama to enforce her proposal, and WE would not go quietly into that tyrannical good night.

For we are still Americans as the Founders understood that concept and we will fight to the death for our natural, God-given and inalienable rights to liberty and property. Ms. Lopez may find that concept alien and condemn us as "throwbacks" to an earlier era. But no matter how insane she thinks we are she cannot wish us away. We are here. We exist and we are armed. Deal with it. If she wants to enforce such a policy she and her friends must kill us. All of us.

Stacking up hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of bodies in a new American civil war over the forcible disarmament of the citizenry seems a curious way to, in her words, "prevent large-scale death and injury."

Perhaps she should rethink her proposal in the interest of preventing really "large-scale death and injury."

Mike VanderboeghThe alleged leader of a merry band of Three Percenters.PO Box 926Pinson, AL 35126

More than any other group, women support tyrannical government over individual freedom and private property rights. They consistently vote by overwhelming margins to use the government to steal from their neighbors and enforce their own corrupted sense of "fairness" upon them. Of course there are exceptions, but they are the exceptions and not the majority. The founders were correct to limit the vote to male property owners. Then there are the whipped men that go along with these women to secure their favors, failing to realize that women actually hate men that they can control.

Repeal the 19th amendment, and restore the constitution. It's that simple.

If you had sent that snail mail I would have said it was a waste of pen and ink - not to mention a totally innocent postage stamp. But as you sent it via email, I can only say you needlessly tortured coulombs of electrons to send a message Ms Lopez and her editors are constitutionally incapable of "getting".

I suppose she and her ilk consider such legislation to be within Justice Scalia's "reasonable regulations". I reckon a whole lot of shit is going to come down as a result of that little turn of phrase.

I had an odd thought when I read this paragraph and thought I would edit to show that thought. .."For we are still Muslims as the Mohamed understood that concept and we will fight to the death for our natural, God-given and inalienable rights to kill infidels and oppress women. Americans may find that concept alien and condemn us as "throwbacks" to an earlier era. But no matter how insane they think we are they cannot wish us away. We are here. We exist and we are armed. Deal with it. If they want to enforce such a policy they and their friends must kill us. All of us."

I know, kinda odd but that is what crossed my mind. We would no sooner give up our guns than Muslims would be to give up jihad. Hey Pia, you and yours best leave this sleeping dog lie. Mac

Incidentally, it is important that this time the ban go further than the 1994 assault weapons ban. That law had a giant loophole -- it grandfathered all existing large-capacity magazines, and there were millions in circulation at the time in the United States (or that could be imported from Eastern Europe). This time, we would hope for a flat ban on transfer or possession, such as the one that exists, say, in New York state.

Having lived in Yuma, AZ in the past there is good reason to have large capacity magazines. Yuma is a major drug corridor from Mexico and rampant with gangs. Our instructor when I took my CCW class said that in Yuma one was more likely to encounter a drug gang of 6 or more than a single assailant. We heard gunfire at night several times a week, a fact that the press and LE do not like to reveal. To be able to defend against a gang without having to reload was a must.

I'm sorry people are frightened by THEIR OWN FREEDOM. They can decline it if it's so disturbing but they can't take ours. If they think cutting up the Bill of Rights like a paper doll is the answer, they they are PRO-violence whether they realize it or not. This is not Australia or Britain. In the city near me, a man killed the first person he saw at 12:01 a.m. New Year's Day to log the first murder of the year. No other reason. If they think WE won't fight for our RIGHTS when they really-really come for the big one that protects all the others...

I've mentioned the Authorized Journalist -- a civil rights champion and self-proclaimed defender of the underdog -- who hopes one day to see all our semi-automatics gone. I guess a licensed, registered revolver would be acceptable IF you can prove a NEED. I think I'll refer him here, so he may understand what he too is proposing.

Wow, people objecting to that grandfather clause are showing up in droves.

Cook and Ludwig said:

"Author John Lott, an economist who supports gun carrying, says that in the vast majority of cases in which a private citizen uses a gun in self-defense, the gun is only brandished and not actually fired at the assailant. Banning high-capacity magazines will have a negligible effect on the ability of citizens to use guns to protect home and hearth. For hunters, a ban on high-capacity magazines would be largely irrelevant."

Banning ammunition would presumably also have "a negligible effect" if you don't actually have to shoot a bad guy very often. Too bad they object to look-alike toy guns, or we could just use those. The arrogance. Keep on. I will be able to look back and soothe my conscience by remembering these idiots' pontifications when I'm forced to forget that I am a gentleman.

Gun owners who, for some unfathomable reason must continue living in California, have mostly NOT turned in the SKS's that they got a 12-pack of for $900 back in the day. Howz about the "arsenal" of a half-ton of ammo and ten 30-round magazines for each of dozens of AK's? High-value (cash or utility value) weapons have mostly been retained in locked safes awaiting need or a chance to move out of State.

As history repeats itself with a slight twist, California is preparing for a genocide before and during the collectivist clampdown. The question is: who will be the actors and who the victims?

Hey, there HAVE BEEN swastikas on posters at Tea Party rallies. With the legend "NO REPEATS." A minor overlooked detail. Nancy Pelosi has been heard to mention them too. Rather like JPFO's "All those in favor of gun control, raise your right hand" featuring a saluting Hitler ... as a TARGET.

Ms. Lopez would "ban the possession, manufacture, use or importation of weapons and ammunition clips that can hold more than 10 rounds."

And by so doing would make MILLIONS of us criminals! My Glock 22 CAME with one extra magazine and I bought another - I carried the 2 spares with me when I worked armed Security - so I already have 3 items she would prohibit.

One can only hope that when the the rebellion she is working so hard to incite happens that her name will be on SOMEbody's 100-head list.

"If she wants to enforce such a policy she and her friends must kill us. All of us."

Make no mistake, she and her ilk want to do exactly that. Oh, not personally, of course (at least for most of them), but they most assuredly think that any who oppose the Glorious Socialist Utopia should be killed.

This twit has obviously never watched "Innocents Betrayed". Aaron Zelman could have told her of the 200 million who died in the 20th Century alone thanks to being disarmed. If that isn't "large scale death and injury" I don't know what is.

Hey, anonymous: just for reference, a top-flight liberal identifier to us, the great unenlightened, is the technique of using a person's name to end every statement you gurgle forth in a ridiculous attempt to assert superiority over them. Next time, use "Michael" and especially find out his middle name and use that along with it. We love the entertainment, mom.

I checked my "clips"...nope...not hicap...thirty rounds just like it says in the instructions, which were written in cartoons so we could understand them. Me need go figure out how eat soup with fork now. Make head hurt.

This broad or whatever would be better off grabbing a guitar and making a living as a John Denver impersonator.

If we ever have to fight, we can thank people like this: http://www.opposingviews.com/i/beck-palin-limbaugh-3-stooges-of-peaceful-insurrection

In the actual headline, "peaceful" is in quotation marks. I've given up on arguing with him. I'm sure he's being deliberately obtuse to piss people off so bad that they say something that could be construed as a direct personal threat. Then he'll call the cops if you're in state, the FBI if your not. "Waco was a terrible tragedy, but after all, they were just a cult. And what possible connection does that have to do with threatening "Second Amendment remedies?'" That kind of thing. It's AT LEAST as bad as we think

EACH features the word "NO" very prominently. No repeats, no socialism, NObama. Remember that they've chosen to interpret "Nobama" a a death threat, sometimes. Whereas depicting George W. Bush with a bloody bullet hole in the forehead and saying "Bush is the only dope worth shooting" are just politicial metaphors. See michellemaklin.com for photos

I had the most amazing realization this morning. I used to work in the news media. We had a small corporate union that represented us in contract disputes and so on. When profits began lagging, there were layoffs, which the union protested. At contract time, management presented them with a choice. Take a salary and benefits cut, with no guarantee that there would not be more layoffs, or accept a TWO PERCENT salary increase with a high likelihood of more layoffs. We voted for sharing in the profits we generated, just as management had continued to do all along. No sacrifies in the penthouse, no sir. Well, some of them took a very small cut in their BONUSES. Half the workforce was let go. The survivors got their raise. On my last day there, I suggested some kind of job action, a sick-out or strike, to demonstrate the union's solidarity against robber-baron management and daily on-the-job humiliation. They didn't and haven't. SOOO... you have collectivists who know what's best for all the rest of us, who wouldn't act ... collectively, when there was a personal risk. A financial risk, not an injury risk or anything. That's why they love Leviathan.

Sharpton blames gun manufacturers for "seducing" black youth into the gangsta culture. Not hip-hop and rap, Ebonics, machismo and looking down on getting an education as "acting white." Bill Cosby, please call him and ask "Was your head with you all day today?" (His son once came home with a weird haircut. When Cosby asked who and how and where, he answered "I dunno.") If Arizona DOES secede, I will seriously consider living there.

What Does It Mean To Be A "Three Percenter"?

These four principles -- moral strength, physical readiness, no first use of force and no targeting of innocents -- are the hallmarks of the Three Percent ideal. Anyone who cannot accept them as a self-imposed discipline in the fight to restore the Founders' Republic should find something else to do and cease calling themselves a "Three Percenter."

No, I'm NOT Charlie. I am ARMED.

Edmund Burke reconsidered in the light of 20th Century funeral pyres.

"Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann.

The Nyberg Battle Flag of the Three Percent

This time we are ALL Davidians. This time, we are all Jews, Kulaks, "counter-revolutionists" and "enemies of the state." We are now a despised minority within a country no longer our own.BUT WE WILL NOT BE DESPISED.

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Everyone should grow up with simulated equipment from a heavy weapons platoon. It gives you a more well rounded education and an appreciation for the finer things in life. -- Sergeant Matthew Vanderboegh, United States Army.

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

On the efficacy of passive resistance in the face of the collectivist beast. . .

Had the Japanese got as far as India, Gandhi's theories of "passive resistance" would have floated down the Ganges River with his bayoneted, beheaded carcass. -- Mike Vanderboegh.

In the future . . .

When the histories are written, “National Rifle Association” will be cross-referenced with “Judenrat.” -- Mike Vanderboegh to Sebastian at "Snowflakes in Hell"

"Smash the bloody mirror."

If you find yourself through the looking glass, where the verities of the world you knew and loved no longer apply, there is only one thing to do. Knock the Red Queen on her ass, turn around, and smash the bloody mirror. -- Mike Vanderboegh

From Kurt Hoffman over at Armed and Safe.

"I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

From long experience myself, I can only say, "You betcha."

"Only cowards dare cringe."

The fears of man are many. He fears the shadow of death and the closed doors of the future. He is afraid for his friends and for his sons and of the specter of tomorrow. All his life's journey he walks in the lonely corridors of his controlled fears, if he is a man. For only fools will strut, and only cowards dare cringe. -- James Warner Bellah, "Spanish Man's Grave" in Reveille, Curtis Publishing, 1947.

"We fight an enemy that never sleeps."

"As our enemies work bit by bit to deconstruct, we must work bit by bit to REconstruct. Be mindful where we should be. Set goals. We fight an enemy that never sleeps. We must learn to sleep less." -- Mike H. at What McAuliffe Said

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.